Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Pont de Pimelles
Pimelles, Yonne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Pont (cad. non cadastré) : inscription par arrêté du 15 juin 2001
- Protection dates
- 2001/06/15 : inscrit MH
- Type
- pont
- Main period of construction
- 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Pimelles
- Département
- Yonne
- Region
- Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.84015, 4.17927
- Mérimée reference
- PA89000029
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1695 map "Gouvernement General de Champagne (southern sheet)." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Pont vraisemblablement construit au 18e siècle par la Maîtrise des Eaux et Forêts. Formé de trois arches de section carrée et surmonté d'un parapet mouluré. Témoin des efforts de la Généralité des Eaux et Forêts pour maîtriser et canaliser les eaux au 18e siècle.
English translation
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History
Bridge presumably built in the 18th century by the Waters and Forests Authority. Formed of three arches of square section and surmounted by a moulded parapet. Testimony to the efforts of the General Administration of Waters and Forests to control and canalize waters in the 18th century.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.